Culture Archive
Archives for March 2024
Everyone is misquoting Jonathan Glazer’s speech at the Academy Awards.
More and more industries are adopting “dynamic pricing” — and consumers aren’t happy.
The most popular YouTuber in the world is going Hollywood.
Sports betting is about the odds, but sports books decide whether the odds are fair.
AD’s journey underscores the Netflix hit’s misogynoir problem.
The offscreen drama of the Netflix reality hit, from Jeramey to Trevor, explained.
We’ve been trained to think of the royal family as a machine. Kategate upended that narrative.
The app skews younger, its users appear more politically polarized, and its user base is changing.
Curse words shift a lot over time. They’re in the middle of a big shift right now.
A new kind of masculinity is dominating music — leaving little room for yesterday’s pop idol.
Kategate, briefly explained.
A trans teen is dead. The state he lived in made his life as hard as possible.
The astrological phenomenon namechecked in new songs from Ariana Grande, Kacey Musgraves, and SZA, explained.
All the reasons the doctored image doesn’t make sense, and the absurd reason it does.
What Best Picture winner Oppenheimer gets right — and wrong — about the threat of nuclear weapons.